Stops: 4 — Gettysburg National Civil War Park, coffee in Dillsburg, Penn., the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and Famous Famiglia Pizzeria in New York City Miles: 239 Tanks of gas: 1 Number of Palin sightings: 3
The House of Representatives voted 97-318 against increasing the federal borrowing limit by $2.4 trillion without preconditional spending cuts on Tuesday night. The Republican leadership designed the vote to fail: They used a procedural trick to require a 2/3 majority for passage and convinced every last member of their caucus to oppose it. The idea, [...]
The conventional wisdom among the political punditry is that 2012 Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney will be hamstrung by the health-insurance plan he helped craft as governor of Massachusetts, which included a mandate to purchase insurance. That may not be true. In conservative circles, the health-insurance mandate has become shorthand for government overreach. But while each [...]
Will they be discussing politics? I doubt it. Not sure either one is very interested in politics, aside from its self-promotional possibilities. I mean, think of what these two really have in common, aside from shamelessness: Reality TV. Can Celebrity Apprentice: Alaska be on the agenda? And so, a contest: What else will these two [...]
We ink-stained wretches have a habit of hyping the new new thing. We speculate breathlessly about the next model of iPhone, turn the NFL draft into a three-day spectacle, deploy packs of reporters to tail a Fox News commentator on a family bus tour of the mid-Atlantic. This tendency is particularly strong when it dovetails [...]
Almost 17 years have passed since a fellow named George W. Bush was elected governor of Texas—17 years of uninterrupted Republican dominance of the Lone Star State. After all that time, it’s easy to forget that Texas did not always belong to the GOP. Like the rest of the former Confederacy, Texas was solid for [...]
I’ve always been a fan of Joe Nocera’s business writing–it’s crisp, clear, hype-resistant and moral–and today he gets to the human heart of what’s flagrantly wrong with our finance system with a column about Robert Wilmers, a regional banker in Buffalo, New York, who represents banking at its best.
–Mitt Romney, explaining his taste for tween vampire fiction.
President Obama has chosen a new commerce secretary, former Edison International CEO John Bryson. He sounds like a good choice, a solid businessman with a public policy background and a strong green streak. But you know who would have been better? Nobody.
